Merry Meddlers

At some point in our lives,we have encountered the category called Merry Meddlers. They crop up, uninvited in our daily interactions with life, posing a harmless question here, a rosy retort there. They assume various forms: neighbour, co-worker, cousin, friend- all bearing the same traits of great listening, incredible soaking and then expunging all that embedded knowledge back to us-drop by drop. Their favourite words are 'so', most often presented as 'so...?' even when you don't want to elaborate on your tuppence so... Then,most often spelt out as Then? Or then! When you are clearly at the short end of the Oxford English dictionary. Mostly though, these Merry Meddlers have just one agenda- meddle, interfere and keep meddling some more- to make life for non meddlers an almost curse. But then, lets look at it this way- who else would pay so much attention to the mundane facts of our banal existence if not the Meddlers? So they sit, somewhere in the middle of the hierarchy: between Concerned Family and Just-for-Kicks friends: occupying the vacant slot between carefreeness and care!